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This week's Link Dump is here!
Let's dance!
Why the hell was Cahokia abandoned?
The mystery of the man who fell from the sky.
The paid applauders of the French Opera House.
What we know about the murder of Thomas Becket.
Hashish and 19th century scientists.
The legends surrounding a cursed island.
Grant vs. Lee at the Battle of the Wilderness.
The end of Roman Britain.
More evidence that Neanderthals have gotten a bad rap.
DNA is telling us how little we know about human history.
When you could mail a cat in New York City.
Domestic violence and the Star Chamber.
When the poor were judged to be putting way too much fun into funerals.
Your chance to hear the lowest note sung by a woman.
This week in Russian Weird looks at government interest in UFOs.
An unsolved Halloween disappearance.
Water and witchcraft in Early Modern England.
Evil multi-colored cat ghosts.
Remembering Dr. Demento.
Remembering the Bay City Rollers.
Canadian pilots keep seeing UFOs.
This is why we can't have nice ruins.
The mystery of a vanished family.
Infanticide in Victorian England.
Buster the roller-skating rooster.
What it's like to be in a coma.
Murder and a cursed chair.
Roget's pre-thesaurus adventures.
Jack London's photographs of the East End.
Contemporary accounts of Benjamin Franklin's funeral.
A case of a girl who starved herself to death over a sense of pride.
A Roman Emperor as an amateur detective.
The marriage negotiations of the future Charles I.
A man who was killed by a corpse.
A newly-discovered Bronze Age tomb.
The notorious Ratcliff Highway Murders.
A look at the life of Nero.
An ancient well in Spitalfields.
A jailed lawyer's best friend is his book chest.
The scandalous Down family.
Another weird disappearance in the wilderness.
An alleged UFO crash in Norway.
The children of Marie Antoinette.
Captain Trollope and the carronades.
A domestic tragedy ends on the gallows.
The only kamikaze attack on an American submarine.
A man who'd die to get away from his wife. At least, that's what he wanted everyone to think.
The ghosts of Windsor Castle.
A homesick Norwegian painter in London.
Audrey Hepburn, Resistance spy.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a famous 16th century murder. In the meantime, here's some Handel.
Good ol' Dr Demento...
ReplyDeleteThe Roman abandonment of Britain I always find interesting. I've always assumed most of the thousands of people, Roman, Briton and Romano-British didn't leave, but I didn't know the departure of the army occurred several times, and included the militia and administrators. The author does make a mistake in naming Stilicho as an emperor. He was what amounted to chief minister.
If King Arthur actually existed, a question that historians have been trying to answer for centuries, it would have been in the early sub-Roman period, probably no later than AD 500.
DeleteTo the extent there's any consensus it's that Arthur likely did exist, but was a local warlord rather than an all-powerful monarch.
Peter
That's what I've read, too. Arthur - and there are actually a few named figures who might apply for the identity - was probably a 'dux' (general), who was able to lead the local princes' and lords' forces against the Saxons, possibly using old Roman tactics.
DeletePutting way too much fun into funerals.
ReplyDeleteMy first thought was " wow they really don't get it. My second thought was the rich are different and they don't like us. My third thought was we are going to celebrate our love and have a decent meal in honor of our departed loved one."